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  1. 21/11/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  2. 14/11/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  3. 07/11/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  4. Prunella Scales CBE, Gillian Tindall, Roger Smith, Anthony Grey

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a writer, an outdoors champion, a journalist

  5. Raila Odinga, Bill Colley, Baroness Rosalind Howells, Sister Marion Irvine

    Matthew Bannister on a Kenyan politician, a boat builder, a campaigner, a nun'

  6. Peter Gurney, Diane Keaton, Peter Hall, Angela Bond

    Matthew Bannister on a bomb disposal expert, an actor, a winemaker and a theatre manager.

  7. Patrick Bradley, Dame Jilly Cooper, Sara Jane Moore, Dame Patricia Routledge

    Matthew Bannister on an electoral officer, an author, an attempted assassin and an actor.

  8. Dame Jane Goodall, Tony Harrison, Lord Menzies Campbell, Danny Thompson

    Matthew Bannister on a primatologist, a poet, a politician and a bass player.

  9. Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, John Stapleton, Mary Elizabeth Dodd, Claudia Cardinale

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a TV presenter, a physiotherapist and an actor.

  10. Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig

    Matthew Bannister on a film star, a historian, a campaigner and a designer.

  11. The Duchess of Kent, Giorgio Armani, Valerie Pearlman, Rick Davies

    John Wilson on a duchess, fashion designer, judge and a singer.

  12. Joe Bugner, Ann McManus, Angela Mortimer Barrett, Frank Strang

    John Wilson on a boxer, a writer, a tennis player and an entrepreneur.

  13. David Richardson, Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Dame Annette Brooke, Byron Rogers

    John Wilson on a broadcaster, an art collector, a former MP and a biographer.

  14. Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter

    John Wilson on an actor, tech pioneer, literacy festival founder, a polymath

  15. Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams

    Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an editor, an educator, a singer

  16. Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson

    Matthew Bannister on an spy boss, a drama school founder, a politician and a craze starter

  17. Dame Cleo Laine, Hulk Hogan, Margaret Boden, Tom Lehrer

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a wrestler, a cognitive scientist and a satirist.

  18. Ozzy Osbourne, Connie Francis, Jacqui Browne, Douglas Chamberlain

    Matthew Bannister on two singers, a campaigner and a cardiologist.

  19. Sir Ian Blair, Jennie Street, Dr Anna Ornstein, Muhammadu Buhari

    Matthew Bannister on a police commissioner, a farmer, a psychoanalyst and a president.

  20. Lord Tebbit, Daphne Boden, James Leprino, Sir Francis Graham-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a harpist, a businessman and an astronomer.

  21. Courtney Griffiths KC, Sara Venn, Nina Kuscik, Mohammad Hussain

    Matthew Bannister on a barrister, a gardener, a runner and a soldier.

  22. Michael Lachmann, Pik-sen Lim, Leon Krier, David 'Syd' Lawrence

    Matthew Bannister on a director, an actor, an architect and a cricketer.

  23. Sir Geoff Palmer, Barbara Holdridge, Kim Woodburn, Sly Stone

    John Wilson on a scientist, an entrepreneur, a reality TV star and a musician.

  24. Brian Wilson, Frederick Forsyth, Uriah Rennie, Edmund White

    Kirsty Lang on a musician, a writer, a referee and an author.

  25. Valmik Thapar, Nancy Blaik, Norma Meras Swenson, Dr Stuart Farrimond

    Kirsty Lang on a conservationist, a charity fundraiser, an author, a science communicator.

  26. Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman

    Matthew Bannister on a 蜜芽传媒 executive, a physicist, a psychoanalyst and a doctor.

  27. Hannah Deacon, Andrew Norfolk, Dame June Clark, Martin Graham

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a journalist, a nurses鈥� leader and a businessman.

  28. Sir Tom Farmer, Elaine Wynn, Sue Stapely, Joseph Nye

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a casino owner, a solicitor and a political analyst.

  29. Jane Gardam, Sir Roger Birch, Mike Peters, Francoise Hampson

    Kirsty Lang on an author, a chief constable, a musician and a lawyer.

  30. Virginia Giuffre, Rosy Bremer, LJ Smith, Wizz Jones

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an activist, an author and a musician.

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